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(2) The District between PendocFs Grove, Martins, and 

 Fowlet Farm. 



The district lying between Pendock's Grove and the gentle ridge 

 extending from Eowick to the north-western corner of Raggedstone 

 Hill is of complex structure, and at the same time of very imperfect 

 exposure. It is almost exclusively covered with undulating pastures 

 and arable land, in which practically the only rock-exposures are 

 those seen on the top of certain tumps and small ridges formed by 

 basalts and diabases intrusive in the Malvern Shales. These, with a 

 number of small excavations made by the writer, and a few actual 

 exposures of Malvern Shale, Llandovery rock, and Drift, together 

 with the distribution of the debris of various kinds scattered over 

 the surface, show that the district is a faulted complex of Black 

 Shales, Grey Shales, May Hill Sandstone, and igneous rocks, covered 

 in places by a stratified Drift. 



In the south-western part of the area the Upper Grey Shales 

 are continued north-westward. Igneous rocks associated with them 

 are seen in two small but conspicuous bosses (M 101 & 101 «) 

 near the farm known as Martins, and a smaller one (M 102) near 

 Pendock's Grove. This latter is shown by excavations to be con- 

 nected with the small hill (M 101a) along a gentle ridge running 

 north-west and south-east : that is, in a direction agreeing with the 

 strike of the beds in the Pendock's Grove district. 



The Coal Hill igneous band also appears to be continued for some 

 distance into this district. An old quarry (M 103) is situated on 

 one of the chief diabase-sills of this zone. 



The northern corner of the district is occupied by a patch of May 

 Hill Sandstone and Grit, no exposures of which occur, but the 

 presence of which is shown by excavations and by abundant debris. 

 The patch is apparently bounded on all sides by faults, which 

 separate the sandstone on the north-west from the Grey Shales, and 

 from another block of May Hill Sandstone ; on the north-east, from 

 the Holtybush Sandstone ; on the east and south, from the Black 

 Shales and associated igneous rocks. 



The Black Shales and igneous rocks on the eastern side of the 

 block are apparently a continuation of the upper White-leaved Oak 

 igneous band and Lower Black Shales. The igneous rock is exposed 

 only at one point (M 157a), and the Black Shales are not exposed 

 at all north of the road from Powlet Parm to White-leaved Oak, 

 but tbeir presence was indicated by some debris at one spot north 

 of this road, and more, together with basalt, was reached in an 

 excavation made near the hedge north-east of M 157a. Basalt 

 (M 175) ^ was reached, in excavations made for drain-pipes, in 

 the northern angle between the sandstone-patches of Pendock's 

 Grove and Powlet Parm ; but it is uncertain whether this basalt is 

 in place. 



The May Hill Sandstone patch east of Fowlet Farm includes 

 yellowish micaceous sandstone (M 153), purple grit (M 150), and 

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